This
is a special Doctor Who scene written exclusively
for BBC Children in Need and is a humorous encounter
between the Tenth
Doctor and the Fifth
Doctor. It
stars just David Tennant and Peter Davison.

Freema Agyeman appears, uncredited, as Martha Jones
in footage from "Last
of the Time Lords"at
the start of the episode, adding to the established
events depicted then.

The
striped trousers Peter Davison wears in this special
episode are actually the ones especially altered
for Colin Baker's Sixth
Doctor for his post-regeneration
scenes in "The
Caves of Androzani".

On
the date of filming, Peter Davison - still the current
record holder for the youngest actor
to play The Doctor (being only
29 years old when he took over from Tom Baker at
the end of the 1981 story "Logopolis") - was older
(at the age of 56) than William Hartnell was when
he began his
run as the First
Doctor.

The
aged appearance of the Fifth Doctor was explained
away as an effect of the merge.

Both
Peter Davison and David Tennant have already appeared
in a Children In Need adventure. David joined Billie Piper for a special scene set straight after "The Parting
Of The Ways" back in 2005, whilst Peter featured in
the 3-D EastEnders crossover episode "Dimensions In
Time" in 1993.

The
Doctor has met different incarnations of himself in
three stories: "The
Three Doctors" (1973), "The
Five Doctors" (1983) and "The
Two Doctors" (1985).
The Children in Need special "Dimensions in Time" (1993)
also featured all the five surviving Doctors at the
time. In the Comic Relief sketch "Doctor Who and
the Curse of Fatal Death" (1999), also written
by Steven Moffat, The Doctor regenerated four times,
resulting in five different actors playing the role. This
short scene,
within
the Console Room, is set between the
end
of
the Season 29 (New Series 3) episode "Last
of the Time Lords" and
the 2007 Christmas special "Voyage
of the Damned".

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The Plot

The Doctor meets The Doctor

After
saying farewell to Martha, The Doctor soon encounters
a problem with the TARDIS. Suddenly, and to the astonishment
of The Doctor, his fifth incarnation appears in the console
room. After recovering from the initial shock the Tenth
Doctor is gleeful at the meeting, but the Fifth
Doctor is initially baffled, assuming his future incarnation
is a deranged fan..

The Tenth Doctor explains that he forgot to put the
shields up after rebuilding the TARDIS, after it was
taken over by The Master, thus allowing it to collide
with the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS in the timestream. Unfortunately
this event generates a paradox at the heart of the ship,
which is powerful enough to rip a hole in the universe.
And to confirm this the Cloister Bell is heard signaling
the impending end.

The Tenth Doctor manipulates the TARDIS controls to
manipulate a supernova so as to cancel out the black
hole caused by the paradox - thus making sure that all
matter remains constant. This amazes the Fifth Doctor,
but he quickly realises that the Tenth Doctor came up
with the solution only because he remembered this encounter.

With the universe safe The Fifth Doctor says his farewells
and so departs. But before he does so he reminds his
future self to raise the TARDIS shields again, but he
is too late as the hull of the RMS Titanic crashes through
one of the TARDIS walls (as originally seen at the end
of the last series).

The Quote of the Story

'Look
at you! The hat, the coat, the crickety-cricket stuff,
the... stick of celery, yeah...
brave choice, celery, but fair play to you, not a
lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable. '
The Tenth Doctor

Release Information

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Title

Release Date
(UK)

Code Number

Cover Art

Remarks

DVD

Released in March
2008, along with "Voyage
of the Damned". Due to be released
as part of a boxed set in November 2008.